 Oh, yeah. Stepsides, fender flares, diagram truck cap, new tires, bumper in the front. Oh, man. Welcome back to the channel, everybody, and the Adventure Wagon. We are closing the door on it today. We're here at Merage Chevrolet and 80 West Customs, where we are going to get customized. So I'm leaving this with them for a few days. And if you look at the truck that's parked right next to me here, this is a little more pop than what we're going to do. But we'll just kind of give you an example of what we're doing here. We're doing fender flares. We're doing a lift. This has 35s. We're not going that big. We're going to go with some 33s on there. But just enough to keep that little bugger off the ground so we're not getting in a big ditch and bumping the daggum little ball back there. And it just wouldn't be the Adventure Wagon without the wagon part. So this is going to be covered back here with the cap. And then we're going to be adding some more stuff throughout the spring. And by the fall, when it's the next hunting season, she's going to be rigged and ready. So I'm excited to see what it's going to look like right after. But this is the last time we're going to see it as the plain Jane model. So take it in. Fast forward 24 hours and ladies and gentlemen, we have snow in Texas. It has been one of the weirdest 24 hours of weather I've ever seen. I went ahead and dropped my truck off for them to get started. They gave me this truck, which is pretty much the same, except its two-wheel drive doesn't have the diesel. It's a Silverado, you know, and then a tornado of crazy weather started happening. It was just 70, like 75 degrees raining and then these crazy storms started moving in. And I wanted to get started on fencing in the top portion of the chicken coop. So I was going to do that while the truck was getting ready. And then I come outside this morning in its snow on the ground. And the temperature has dropped, obviously, into the 30s. So I'm definitely not heading out on the water today to do any sort of dangling. I am going to get to work on the chicken coop now that it's not actually raining. It is snowing. This is so weird because this is actually why I need the four-wheel drive. So I don't know, maybe it's a sign. So I'm going to grab a hot cup of Joe and get to work on the chicken coop. Look at those snowflakes and a hot cup of coffee. You just don't see that in Texas every day. OSG got me fueled up with that good good. So I can fuel up and finish that chicken coop up. Okay, I'm fueled up, ready to go. But I'm not going to lie to you guys. This is a pretty dagum and tense right here. Normally when we say it's going to snow in Texas, that means like a slight little flurry. I'm hearing crunch on the feet here. That is rare, extremely rare. It's not going to stop me from getting out here today and completing a job that I continually need to work on so that we can get chickens in here at least by the spring. But I think I'm going to try to get them in here like February. Look at this. Kidding me? My goodness. It's not stopping the airplanes from flying today. So what we're going to do is take this wire right here that's already on the lower part of the fence and we're going to strap it, not strap it. We're going to staple it. I've got a pneumatic stapler and we're going to go all around the top here and that's going to give us about six foot of fencing. Just look at that little homestead right there though. Rackley Roost, dagum treehouse. We don't have a chimney though. That's really unfortunate. We are still in Texas by the way. I haven't traveled to North Dakota. Okay, so far I have a couple of panels put up and I'm using this four foot tall. It's 50 feet long. It's just green plastic coated fencing. It's held up pretty good. So so far the bottom that I've put on here that's been up probably seven or eight months. It's done pretty well. What I'm going to do for the top half, I had a little bit of scrap left over. I cut it in half so it's about two foot worked out perfectly. So now I've got instead of 50 feet, I've got a hundred feet of this stuff and I think I got it for like 50 bucks and I'm just going to wrap the entire thing. Just go from big post to big post and take the pneumatic stapler and just staple all over. The first couple of panels turned out really good. Stuff is really hard to work with but once you get it up it's pretty sturdy. Like I could probably put you know dog or goats or something in there. It would contain a lot. It's not just regular chicken wire and the thing that makes it really fast is using this pneumatic stapler. Just using little little tiny staples. I wasn't sure about them at first if they would hold up but they've held up for about eight months now on this. A little bit of rust but and I'm probably gonna have to go back in you know a few years and redo it but it seems to be working really good. Those are just little 3 8 3 8 inch staples so let's lock and load keep going. A lot of the snow is starting to melt off. We're waiting on an update on the truck to go get it but in the meantime we have gotten about half of the fencing done here. It's not looking too shabby honestly. The stain on this thing solid move. So I'm gonna complete the rest of this. Okay I think phase one as I called it is complete. This is raising up the coop, staining it and then fencing it in. So we just completed all of that. Look at this corner back here. This is the infamous corner where the fox got in and it is higher than my face so it's gotta go over that. Then this will be electrified on the outside. We're gonna run just one wire and that's gonna be a project for another day but I'm excited to have this part done. I think honestly we could go ahead and get some chickens in here and I think they would be okay for a time until the fox has figured out some way to to get over the top of that but we're gonna fortify it even more so the chickens could be safe. And the snow is basically all gone now. It's like it never even happened. Look at that. This was literally a white, all white tear this morning all gone now. We about to get that adventure wagon back y'all. It's done been fixed up so taking a pause on the chicken coop because all that crazy ice and snow we had my truck work got a little delayed so I got delayed by what a day a difference makes in Texas. My gosh it's in the 60s maybe even 70s just coming off of snow it's incredible. Just got the call said truck's ready come get it and it looks good. Back it on up to the new adventure wagon. We're here we're about to park right next to it y'all. It's looking like sexual chocolate. Oh just take your gander just take your gander those upgrades right there. Look at that beef up front y'all it is ready to smash a deer just not on the side just right there in the center just in case. Got those BFG AT's the KO2's on there and we now have our step sides so we can get up to the top. Well let's just get this thing back to the crib and take a closer look. I am just looking strong. We got some fighter jets flying over today something's happening that lot and doesn't be dead for a while. Get this baby back home maybe take it out for a little test drive in some dirt and see how it does man this is. Sucker looks good I tell you what everybody on the lot was walking by and like man look at this thing. Okay looks like we got a problem with the old Chevy. Service emissions 174 miles until yeah service emissions manual C owners manual we are herky jerky in here can't really give it any gas oh yeah feels like the transmission's about to rip out this is no bueno. So fast forward 24 hours and we are back in the driveway I swear my nickname should be Murphy. My next dog will probably be named Murphy because whatever can and will happen happens to me. I'm gonna share all these upgrades here in just a second but I just got to explain what happened so I was driving back from the dealership I was like a mile away from the house thank you Lord and the sensor started going off the transmission was like skipping it was it was not good it was a bad deal. Rich Chevy got a tow truck came out here delivered me another truck took this one back and they had three techs working on it today and they figured out there was a wiring short so like one of the wires were shorting out. I feel like the ghost of my old truck was like calling at me like hey man Toyota I might be a little scrappy on the inside might be a little drab don't have the accoutrements but da gum I get up and run down the road every time. I will let y'all light up the comments on who's got the best truck right now but let's just look at my truck specifically and the stuff that they did and what is looking extra tasty. So if y'all seen the new Chevy trail boss this is kind of the same deal that I believe they put the trail boss lift on this they have a leveling kit from Chevy which is just a two inch and it basically makes that level from front and back but since I do a lot of towing they went ahead and did it the the three and a half I believe it's three and a half in the back here and so I've got a a rake a factory kept rake which will be good for towing when we hook up back there keep it nice level you always want your truck if you're towing to be good and level it's good for braking it's good for aerodynamics balance of the truck and everything like that fender flares hit you pretty hard right here I mean these are some big brows right here I mean my gosh that really opens opens up the truck when you look at them from the side there they stick out quite a bit they're very aggressive and at first I was like man these tires these tires these two 95s that you know that's the same truck I had our same tire had them on tundra that they just don't seem very wide they're not sticking out very far with the the flinder flare but then I got to look in and these are actually 33 by 12 and a half so they're a little bit wider than my old tire they ride tremendous I mean this is like third or fourth set of these all trains I've had and they are really really good I love these tires but these are 33 12 and a half so these are the same size as I had on my first car ever which was a three and a half inch lifted Jeep Wrangler 93 YJ and I had 33 by 1250s on there so they look really good well balanced honestly you could probably even bump up the tire size another notch there's so much clearance but I really don't want to do that I think it it's pretty good the way it is it leaves a lot of room for going in ditches and you know those Colorado moments or those steep boat ramp moments that aren't really boat ramps are just kind of ditches into little lakes that you want to get into the fender flares if y'all are wondering I'm pretty sure they're made by Rough Country I looked around at a bunch and I thought they they looked the best the other ones just they didn't have the same pop so these look really good they came blank they painted them matches the truck perfect then we go over here to the old step ruse I was already finding that the truck was like surprisingly pretty high without even having to lift on it so now it's really nice getting in and out and you know what I do at boat ramps I do a lot of the shimmies I get right here and then I'm like moving beyond I went kind of cheap and I didn't buy the full extended version that had one right here now I'm wishing I did because I would I would totally use that grab on right there go to the roof rack and then go to your boat just packed it up so we can take a look at the main attraction here what really makes this my off-road office literally one of the reasons I've had white trucks is because it is so easy to get caps for trucks quickly they're really readily available in white because that's the color they come in so I mean I like white in general but it's really easy to get truck caps in white and it just so happened that DFW camper who also did my dad's camper they did this one as well they did a great job and they had this one in stock already so done they installed it it's flush it looks really really good y'all and I don't even know what model this is to be honest with you I think it's one of their their nice ones but you can get them customized whatever kind of like sliding glass you want lift like you can totally customize caps this one happens to be made by a re my last one was a leer but inside of here I'm probably the only person on the planet that has an a re cap and a leer locker you know just they got both brands on here and this this still works y'all they took this off my old truck this is what 80 West Customs they they took it off the old truck and they installed it in this one so that saved me a ton of money so let's take a gander on the inside with some lights on here listen to the echo listen to the echo because there's no carpet in here got a little lights you know got some lights in here this was carpeted on my last one it's not on this one but honestly I got I got a lot of stuff like hung up in that bugs like to get in it so it's all good I'm not mad at it I can actually sleep back there but I have other plans for sleeping situations this is gonna be for all the dangle supply a camping supply all that good stuff and can't tell you how much I love having that instead of having a storage system on the bottom because I still haul stuff in this you know I mean this is like this is the truck I used to work on the house too so I'm constantly putting stuff down in here wood you know rocks dirt whatever supplies for the for the crib but it just came out really well I'm really happy the way they mounted it it's super solid this is now an adventure truck for me now with that that is a huge part of it lastly all we have a a lighted bumper it is up I gotta reach down here in the switch but boom woods are just being lit up right now look at that so this is just a little bumper I wanted to add just in case I needed to push over a gate or you know need to smoke a deer out in the woods but really doesn't save me from over here which is most likely where you hit them but anyway it came with a light it honestly wasn't it wasn't that expensive either and it has a little skid plate that goes down there it's a mix of that you know aluminum or nickel-plated metal whatever and then just a black bar there and I could actually mount more stuff to this if I wanted to like some more lights something like that you know maybe even hold a couple of dangle poles across here I don't know that probably dumb but anyway it looks mean it looks good it serves a purpose and I like it a lot okie dokie all that is going to do it for the the tour the current tour a couple of more things to be added one major one is going to be the rack the rack is really important I've been looking at a bunch of those I'm gonna go with a different style and I did last time with just the bars I'm actually gonna be doing a full like flat rack on top that could be customized to to put anything up there but you know water diesel put your fishing poles kayak whatever you want to do and kind of take it on and off and customize it for the adventure that you're going on at the time wish the new adventure wagon some luck and hit the thumbs up y'all Lord knows we could use all the luck we can get over here and I can't wait to get these tires buddy take this baby out on its next adventure so stay tuned subscribe to the channel God bless you and I will see you on the next